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Beyond Financial Inclusion: What Drives Financial Health for Women Entrepreneurs?

CARE’s new Strive Women report finds digital divide, financial stress and household responsibilities limit business success in emerging markets.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Tapestry Career Spotlight: Eric Chavous, Senior Manager, Counsel

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Innovation & Technology

Innovating for Impact: Trane Technologies Helps Geely Bring Efficiency to Their Electric Car Manufacturing

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CGF Announces New Members for June 2021

The Consumer Goods Forum is delighted to announce the following new companies have joined our global membership community and, in doing so, have confirmed their commitment to our vision of better lives through better business.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

What Your Business Needs to Know About the Post COVID World

More than anything, the pandemic has demonstrated the impact technology has on our ability to adapt to periods of uncertainty and change. The arrival of COVID-19, and the inherent restrictions it brought with it, fundamentally affected how we work, live, learn and play.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Timberland Announces Global Product Take-Back Program in Partnership With ReCircled

Timberland announces a critical next step on its path to circularity with the upcoming launch of a global product take-back program.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Equity In Action: The Un-carrier Approach to DE&I

Equity In Action (EIA) is more than how we talk about our DE&I efforts – it is a practical plan. EIA offers a roadmap that inspires us to lead by example, put people first and ensure DE&I remains at the center of everything we do.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Pride Business Leadership Awards Winners Named for San Francisco North Bay

Beck Kageyama, director, Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa is a North Bay Business Journal 2020 Pride Business Leadership Awards winner.

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Media & Communications

Investors & Climate Change - Leading Institutions and Their Growing Networks Are Urging Expanded Corporate Disclosure

What are the steadily rising investor expectations for the corporate sectors’ climate change actions and expanded disclosures? We can examine the expectations of leading asset owners/fiduciaries and their asset managers to understand their views on the ESG / sustainability disclosure practices of issuers they provide capital to.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

WSP USA Wins Five ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Thursday, June 17, honored WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, with five Engineering Excellence Awards, including a Grand Award for the Canarsie Tunnel Sandy Rehabilitation and L Line Core Capacity Improvement project.

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Education

Ohio High School Students Win 2021 Arrow Electronics Innovation in Electronics Award

Arrow Electronics presented Ohio high school juniors Soham Joshi and Raaghav Malik with its 2021 Innovation in Electronics Award at the Invention Convention U.S. Nationals award ceremony, held virtually June 24.

Media & Communications

Make-A-Wish Counters Misinformation: Vaccine Policy

Make-A-Wish's recent decision regarding how to begin to lift some restrictions for wishes involving air travel and large gatherings was made to protect the health of children with critical illnesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diversity & Inclusion

Collaborating Builds Our Bench Strength

Qualcomm has identified strategic partners to accelerate our inclusion & diversity programs. Our continued engagement with organizations that work with diverse communities has been vital to our success at increasing female & minority representation.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pro Bono Perspectives S3E13: Yusuf George, JUST Capital

JUST Capital's Yusuf George explains why tracking and reporting on pay equity is one of the most crucial steps companies can take toward racial equity, referencing findings from the Corporate Racial Equity Tracker and recommendations from the CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity.

Diversity & Inclusion

How Does Gender Fit Into ESG?

Martina Cheung, Head of S&P Global Sustainable1 recently spoke at The Economist's Sustainability Week US where she explored how gender fits into ESG.

Responsible Production & Consumption

A Commitment to Food Safety That "Checks Out" With Growers…and Consumers

Considering the WHO and FAO theme of "Safe Food Today for a Healthy Tomorrow" for this year's World Food Safety Day, it is a good opportunity to reiterate how our Product Supply team is going the extra mile to help ensure the production and consumption of safe food.

Diversity & Inclusion

Advancing Equity Through Visionary Leadership

As an organization, Comcast has sought out partners led by inspiring thinkers who are pioneering creative ways to address social challenges, and invested in partners who share their commitment to creating a more just world.

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Green Infrastructure

Enel X Collaborates With Biogen to Electrify Take-Home Vehicle Fleet in North America

This collaboration advances progress on Biogen’s Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives initiative to go fossil fuel free by 2040 and improve public health by advancing global targets for climate change and air pollution reduction.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

2021 Schneider Electric Go Green Winners

At Schneider Electric we believe that energy is a basic human right and we are dedicated to furthering mankind through new technologies.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Stonyfield Organic Joins the Whole Planet Foundation Supplier Alliance for Microcredit

Stonyfield Organic is committed to donating $50,000 to Whole Planet Foundation this year to fund 285 microloans and create 1,490 opportunities for a better life.

Sustainable Development Goals

Vinyl Sustainability Council Announces +Vantage Vinyl™ Sustainability Verification Has Completed Pilot Phase

Vinyl industry sustainability initiative, +Vantage Vinyl, completes pilot phase

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Research, Reports & Publications

Prudential Financial 2020 ESG Report Details Company Transformation

Prudential’s 2020 ESG Report, titled “Transformation,” highlights the sustainable actions and initiatives the company executed, advanced and, in some cases, accelerated throughout the extraordinary events of 2020.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Pandemic Doesn't Stop Cummins From Progressing on Sustainability Priorities

Cummins was able to make progress on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s new 2020 Sustainability Progress Report shows.

Environment

Trane Technologies Spotlights the Future of the Sustainable Built Environment at World Climate Forum Europe

Jose La Loggia, president of Commercial HVAC Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand for Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), today at 15:00 CET joins a panel of European leaders at World Climate Forum Europe on Envisioning the Sustainable Built Environment of Tomorrow—Creating Momentum for the EU Renovation Wave*.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Fifth Third Celebrates Pride Month

As part of Pride Month, four Fifth Third Bank employees share their stories as members and allies of the community.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Employee Spotlight: Why This Customer Care All-Star and Artist Is “Proud to Be”

In honor of Pride Month, we highlight Joe Richards and his community photo project “Proud to Be,” which T‑Mobile has adopted companywide this year. Joe curates experiences as an art form. His masterpiece? Inclusion.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Meet 16 Gen Z Leaders Who Are Making an Impact

Together they are tackling the biggest challenges of our time, and finding new ways of creating real change.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Good Culture Joins the Whole Planet Foundation Supplier Alliance for Microcredit

For two weeks beginning June 23, supplier partners are supporting the Whole Planet Foundation Prosperity Campaign in select Whole Foods Market stores and online to alleviate poverty in countries that supply the company’s stores with products.

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